I first heard these terms on TTA. I was please at the wit that was inherent in them; however, I did not know that the terms were much older than the Internet age.

In 1903, Mark Twain wrote a diatribe over Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science. Harper's refused to publish it, so Twain wrote, "The situation is not barren of humour. I had been doing my best to show
in print that the Xn Scientist cult has become a power in the land –
well, here is the proof: it has scared the biggest publisher in the
Union."